One of my colleague found this nice article on the web which explains things we need to do and not to do to customize a UITableView and make it look great than a plain dump table.

http://cocoawithlove.com/2009/04/easy-custom-uitableview-drawing.html

HTC will be the first mobile company to bring Adobe Flash Player Lite to the Android Open Source Mobile platform with the release of its new Hero mobile device. The HTC Hero phone will come with Flash Lite 3.1, which means it’ll be able to cope with anything written with ActionScript 2.0 and thus be very well equipped for interactive content as well as streaming online video and audio. Checkout a demo video here:-

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/devices/articles/htchero.html

I got this error while building an iPhone application that is going to use APNS. I am still trying to figure out what is causing this problem. A more detailed error message is here:-

"Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3000 UserInfo=0x113e80 "no valid 'aps-environment' entitlement string found for application"

APNS Error

XCode: Could Not Support Development

Today  when I started my work on an iPhone project, my XCode failed to mount my iPhone. The XCode organizer was showing an orange dot next to it instead of the usual green one. Organizer complained “Could Not Support Development”. I tried restarting my XCode, launched iTunes but in vain. iTunes was able to mount my iPhone but XCode simply failed and I was not able to test my app’s on my phone. Read the rest of this entry »

Error Starting Executable

Quite a few times in our iPhone application development cycle we would encounter XCode error “Error Starting Executable - No provisioned iPhone OS device is connected.” even when we know the device is connected to the machine.   This error occurs when the connected device is not configured in the XCode->Organizer. Organizer would fail to mount the device as the version of XCode installed on the developer machine may not support the version of iPhone OS installed on the device.

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If you ever need to add a image as background for an UIView then do it like this (Make sure the image is in your app’s resource bundle):-

- (void)viewDidLoad
{
    self.view.backgroundColor = [[UIColor alloc] initWithPatternImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"MyBackground.png"]];
}

I found this web based iPhone mockup creator.
Nice tool. Supports sharing the design creation with multiple users and collabrate on the mockup….

The all new iPhone 3GS has arrived. ‘S’ standing for speed. The internal hardware has undergone lots of changes while still retaining the same good old look externally. The new iPhone 3GS supposedly loads 2.1x faster to launch Messages, 2.4x to load SimCity, 3.6x faster to load an Excel attachment, 2.9x faster to load a large website.

The camera has be upgraded to 3MP with support for Video and auto focus. The camera application has a switch that lets users swap between still photo and video mode. The camera shoots video at 30FPS, VGA with audio, auto-focus, auto-white balance, auto-exposure. Isn’t it cool?

The iPhone 3GS supports digital compass as well as voice commands too. The new compass application shows your orientation, and has integration with Maps. If you double click, the map will re orientate itself. All rumors doing rounds on the web are coming true. The surprises are very limited this time.
The iPhone OS 3.0 GM build is available to developers to test their apps. The offical final release of 3.0 would be on 17th June along with the release of the new iPhone 3GS.

In India it would be released quite late than other countries as usual.

This is my first post using iPhone 3.0 Wordpress application. This is awesome cool in that now I can blog when I am travelling. I will write more about this app as I begin to use more of it.

the first feedback would be I am missing all the formatting options that I take for granted on desktop version of wordpress.

Sometimes when we are installing applications to our device through XCode, we might get a error message saying “The executable was signed with invalid entitlements“. This is most likely because the device is not included in the provision file. In tried with a device which i was sure to be included in the provision file and found that it works as expected. This error mostly occurs when we try to install applications on device which are not included in the provision file and is running iPhone OS 3.0. My iPod Touch whose UDID was not in the provision file was throwing this error where as my iPhone whose UDID is included in the provision file worked fine.

If you come across anyother reasons for getting this error message, do let me know.